Top hard drive/ram for gaming?
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OCZ is well known for making quality memory. Do you have any further specifications or a link to the OCZ RAM you're buying?
Satisfied... lol. Isn't that the fastest possible setup?
Check the frequency and timings on the ram. Most likely it's fine.
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what if it's not in raid 0, would it still be ok? Cause I am not familiar with the raids, and it confuses me whenever i read about it.
Heres the link I was thinking about getting.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267
Also, are these any good?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227261
1 more thing, I looked under device manager/disk drive and I can't seem to see how much mb I have.
Also, which 1 is my motherboard?
Thank you everyone
Heres the link I was thinking about getting.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227267
Also, are these any good?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227261
1 more thing, I looked under device manager/disk drive and I can't seem to see how much mb I have.
Also, which 1 is my motherboard?
Thank you everyone
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Actually, no. Four in Raid 0 would probably be a little faster.
I wouldn't purchase two Raptors unless you RAID them in a striped (0) configuration. Setting up a RAID configuration on the newer boards is usually pretty easy. For RAM, I'd recommend the Patriot 2GB. They have a good reputation, and the price is $36.99 after MIR.
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diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Actually, no. Four in Raid 0 would probably be a little faster.
Or you can get a couple of 15k cheetah drives
With a RAID 0 configuration, you combine the two hard drives to work as one, leading to faster performance.
Some believe the performance gains are negligible, and "not worth it." I've never compared the difference between a single Raptor and two in RAID 0, but I've seen several benchmarks that show two drives are faster than one.
Actually, the drives become one, so you get approx. 137 GB of data storage. In order to run a RAID configuration, you must have a motherboard that supports RAID, or a PCI RAID controller. Many motherboards support RAID, so that shouldn't be a problem.
150 gb if he runs raid 1, 300 if he runs raid 0. I think you got confused.
No sir, I'm not confused. Technically, you have two drives for a total of 279 GB. However, since the two drives are combined as one, you only have 139 GB of storage available, not 137 as I incorrectly mentioned in my previous post. If I'm wrong, Omega will correct me. He's running a RAID 0 array as well.
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Geoff
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It's always a possibility, but thats why I backup all of my documents, media, saved games, etc to an external 500GB hard drive.
RAID 0 combines all the hard drives in the array (given that they are all the same capacity). I'm a bit unclear on what you're asking here, but if you have two 139GB hard drives in RAID 0, you should see one hard drive appear as ~278GB. If you have two 139GB drives in RAID, it's possible you have it in RAID 1 instead of RAID 0.No sir, I'm not confused. Technically, you have two drives for a total of 279 GB. However, since the two drives are combined as one, you only have 139 GB of storage available, not 137 as I incorrectly mentioned in my previous post. If I'm wrong, Omega will correct me. He's running a RAID 0 array as well.
Heres what it looks like for me running my four 320GB drives:
Geoff
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That screenshot was taking after I just installed Windows and some games. I have about 205GB used now, although I'm going to import my media collection to my computer so that will take up most of the space.
I rarely partition my drives. I used to have one partition for the OS, one for games/apps, and another for documents. I found it was a pain to manually change all the install directories and when I did need to reformat, I had to reinstall all the programs again anyways.
If/when I need to reformat, the RAID array stays in tact, but just like a single drive everything is gone. Thats why for the mean time the 500GB external drive I have is more then enough for a backup.